Recalibrating Our Moral Compass

Thank you, Megan McArdle for your Aug. 13 op-ed, “Show Me The Victims Of Insider Trading.” When you subtract ethics from business legal codes, we are all free to profit without conscience.

Like Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” (Irish parents could ease their poverty by selling their children to the wealthy as food), there is always a silver lining when we ignore the drag of morality on good business and political practices. After all, businesses routinely outsource, downsize and raid weaker corporations without regard for their impact on workers, consumers or country. Trump and his Republicans even practice caging children indefinitely for unspecified purposes.

Maybe McArdle is right. We need to rewrite our business rules to match our moral compass.